MATH/APPM 4650 Schedule
Week Date Section Topics
1 Jan 14 Course introduction
Jan 16 1.1 Review of Calculus
Jan 18 1.2 Roundoff errors and computer arithmetic
2 Jan 21 HOLIDAY Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 23 Introduction to mathematical software
Jan 25 1.3 Algorithms and convergence
3 Jan 28 2.1 The bisection method
Jan 30 2.2 and 2.3 Fixed-point iteration and Newton's method
Feb 1 2.4 Error analysis for iterative methods
4 Feb 4 2.5 Accelerating convergence
Feb 6 2.6 Zeros of polynomials and Muller's method
Feb 8 2.7 Review of Chapter 2
5 Feb 11 3.1 Interpolation and the Lagrange polynomial
Feb 13 3.2 Divided differences
Feb 15 3.3 Hermite interpolation
6 Feb 18 3.4 Cubic spline interpolation
Feb 20 3.6 Review of Chapter 3
Feb 22 4.1 Numerical differentiation
7 Feb 25 4.2 Richardson's extrapolation
Feb 27 4.3 and 4.4 Elements of numerical integration and composite numerical integration
Feb 29 4.5 and 4.6 Romberg integration and adaptive quadrature methods
8 Mar 3 4.7 and 4.9 Gaussian quadrature and improper integrals
Mar 5 4.10 Review of Chapter 4
Mar 7 MIDTERM Chapters 1-4
9 Mar 10 5.1 Elementary theory of initial-value problems
Mar 12 5.2 Euler's method
Mar 14 5.3 Higher-order Taylor methods
10 Mar 17 5.4 Runge-Kutta methods
Mar 19 5.6 Multistep methods
Mar 21 5.7 Variable step-size multistep methods
Mar 24 HOLIDAY Spring Break
Mar 26 HOLIDAY Spring Break
Mar 28 HOLIDAY Spring Break
11 Mar 31 5.8 Extrapolation methods
Apr 2 5.9 Higher-order equations and systems
Apr 4 5.10 Stability
12 Apr 7 5.12 Review of Chapter 5
Apr 9 6.1 Linear systems of equations
Apr 11 6.2 Pivoting strategies
13 Apr 14 6.3 Linear algebra and matrix inversion
Apr 16 6.4 and 6.5 The determinant of a matrix and matrix factorization
Apr 18 6.6 Special types of matrices
14 Apr 21 6.7 Review of Chapter 6
Apr 23 7.3 Iterative techniques for solving linear systems
Apr 25 8.1 Discrete least squares approximation
15 Apr 28 9.2 The power method
Apr 30 11.1 The linear shooting method
May 1 REVIEW Review of Chapters 5 and on.
Final Exam May 3, 1:30-4:00 pm.